new york. thank you for being with us as we await a critical decision minutes away that could have major fallout from your bank account. the federal reserve is poised to once again raise interest rates to try to tame inflation. this would be the fourth straight big rate hike and the impacts will certainly be felt at the white house less than a mile away where we ll hear shortly from president biden set to discuss his latest efforts to bolster the economy. and then tonight he ll make a primetime address focused on threats to democracy. but it is those pocketbook issues that most voters say are most important as they fill in their ballot. you can see the economy tops the list with election day now five days away. matt egan is live outside the federal reserve. how much pressure is the fed facing right now to make the right call here? reporter: well, ana, the pressure has just been building and building on the fed. it s palpable. people are angry about the high cost of living a
before the midterm elections. and we are in the final stretch, as candidates work to reach still undecided voters. in the senate race in pennsylvania, it s all about swing voters in the suburbs. democratic lieutenant governor john fetterman is up against republican mehmet oz. the outcome of the race there is critical, if democrats want to keep their razor-thin majority in the senate. cnn national reporter dan meriga is live for us in philadelphia there today. how tight is this race this weekend? it s remarkably tight. you ve seen the lead, the polling lead that john fetterman had over the summer has narrowed in recent weeks. and both campaigns, democrats and republicans acknowledge, there s a smaller and smaller sliver of undecided voters in this contest. that s what they are seeking to reach. dr. oz has been off the campaign trail today. he appeared on fox news this morning. he spoke about crime and the importance of the debate on tuesday. that s the key date in this conte
tennis legend had in mind but roger federer still managed to dazzle. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin in the atlantic where two powerful storm systems are making their way toward land. first, fiona, a deadly storm that caused massive destruction across several caribbean islands, is now battering the canadian maritimes. hurricane warnings are in place as damaging winds and heavy rain pound the region. residents from nova scotia to newfoundland did what they could before the sun went down to prepare. and now that the storm has arrived in earnest, hundreds of thousands are without power. meanwhile, a state of emergency has been declared in florida as tropical storm ian forms over the central caribbean. the storm is currently a few hundred miles south of jamaica and moving west. ian is expected to strengthen as it makes its way to western cuba. derek van dam, is the east coast really getting the worst of fiona right now? e
mike pompeo. in uvalde, texas, a new investigation that uncovered a local of majority officers never had active shooter training. more on that this hour. we begin this morning with new details on the investigations facing former president donald trump. we start in new york where during his deposition before the state attorney s general office, the former president took the fifth over 440 times as part of the state civil investigation into trump s business practices. in a lengthy statement, trump slammed the probe as politically motivated and said he had no choice but to plead the gift after the fbi searched his florida home as part of an unrelated investigation. also this morning, new details emerging about the fbi s efforts to obtain documents with classified information allegedly taken to mar-a-lago from the white house after donald trump left the white house last year. according to the wall street journal, prior to the search someone familiar with the stored papers
york attorney general s office, he invoked his fifth amendment right more than 440 people. he did answer one question, though, his name. in moments, the line of questioning he faced and what it indicates about the civil case the attorney general is building. plus, new reporting about why the fbi search of mar-a-lago may have happened even after more than a dozen boxes were retrieved by the national archives earlier in the year. the wall street journal reports someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may still be more classified documents at the private club after the national archives retrieved 15 boxes earlier in the year. people familiar with the matter said. as of now, nbc news has not ind pently verified the reporting. the focus is intensifying on how the justice department should handle this unprecedented moment. pressure is intensifying on attorney general merrick garland to explain the search as trump s allies and defenders lob unverified al